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Nikon D7100
f/11 | 1/250 | 22mm | ISO 100
B400 in diffused beauty dish @ 1/4 power directly above camera roughly 3 feet from subject fired by Phottix Atlas II
sadly, we are no longer in touch & I hate when rifts happen that cannot be repaired. It's the part of life that sucks & I wish it never happened...
The edit of course is all me. :)
Ferrari World
Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates
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I've decided to view this whole experience differently. As much as I am sad and lonely and missing my mother and my grandmother and my life in the city . . .
It is a nice luxury to have all this time to myself to sort through it all in my heart and my mind. I do appreciate that. At least as painful as this phase has been - I don't have to work and deal with a bunch of dramatic siblings and some of the craziness that I've seen others going through in their grief.
I'm doing pretty good, actually. :)
Self portrait taken on tracks used for car storage; they do constantly change. This week it's been two long black trains side by side. Could be anything...
Behind some trees in a field in front of my house. The tracks are the municipal line.
I'M ON THE EDGE !
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Friday 18 July 2014
just outside Carthage, MO
45 years old
So, I'm late in doing my "This is me" selfie for the group. Honestly, I haven't been keeping up with the weekly theme... yikes. Since this is a new year, a new 365 and I have new contacts I caved and did this one. :o)
This is me:
~I'd rather be wearing jeans and one of my hubby's oversized shirts.
~I'd rather be barefoot.
~I'm 43.
~I have 4 kids, Katie 21, Justin 19, Emily 17 and Arin14.
~I'm a Physician Assistant (mid-level provider) in an emergency room.
~I'd rather they labeled us "Physician Associate" because our role is so often misunderstood.
~I've been a High School teacher and girls basketball coach.
~I love food! Especially ethnic food... Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Japanese. You name it, I probably love it.
~I've been married 23 years. It's been a lot of work (for BOTH of us! lol) and a lot of fun.
~I love reading (mostly fiction)
~I might play an instrument or two...
~I've always been the only one in my family with green eyes. All my sibs have blue. I was the last and I think they just ran out of blue :o/ My kids? Blue, gray, brown and brown.
~I hate being late. And being early.
Enuff for now... I've prolly bored you all to tears.
Today was spent finally cleaning our humble abode. The holidays had made it quite the disaster!
I feel much better about life in general now :oD
I'm feeling pretty satisfied with the way that I look, how I feel, who I am, what I do - all that. OH -
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Saturday 23 November 2015
my bedroom, Brooklyn, NYC
46 years old and LOVING it !
numerous times, by numerous people.
figured it was time to finally tell you guys some facts
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1. Hershey's Cookies 'N Creme is my favourite candy bar.
2. I am always changing my nail polish.
3. I am constantly wondering what's going on in the lives of strangers all around me.
4. I see movies multiple times while they're still in theatres
5. No matter how hard I try, my car and room are always a mess.
6. I am incredibly emotional and passionate about music and songs affect me very strongly.
7. I'm really excited for Fall.
8. My favorite number to write out is the figure-eight.
9. I love to write.
10. I've been broken more than ever this year, but I am healing slowly.
My eyes are more blue than they look here; but it is late, and I don't feel like trying to touch them up right now. ;o)
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"He was wearing his boots and a star on his chest
When Jackass Bill laid him to rest"
…hey, I ain’t dead yet!!!...hahahahahahah…I know, it may seem that way, especially with my disappearances…this week are Parent Teacher Conferences, and I was getting my grade book ready to print out my report cards…hit print and I got nothing…so I’ve spent the last three days reentering and reposting grades, they’re printed, and now I’m READY!!!!!
…today is my second Flickr anniversary, and as it was also Thanksgiving last week, I have to say I’m so thankful for all the friends I’ve made here…I’ve been privileged to meet a whole lot of great people…you’ve made my journey a terrific one. This was taken in Oatman, AZ when Lisa and I were there a few weeks ago…as I’ve been too busy to do much of anything other than schoolwork, I asked Lisa if she’d fix this pic up for me…this is the result of her magic fingers…actually, I think I look pretty good here…hahahahahahah…anyway, I’m starting on my third Flickr year…I can’t wait to see what this next year will bring…I hope you’re having a wonderful week, my friends…I’ll be by to visit when I can. :~}
… here’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Soundtrack ~~~ by Enno Morricone
...please click Here to view this large on black.
It was my birthday today, and before anyone asks, I'm not saying how old I am, lol.
I wanted to get this shot done earlier when there was some natural light, but of course I left it until it was too late so it's a little noisy as I had to use a higher ISO than I would have liked. Ah well, never mind, it's just a fun shot anyway.
Better Red than Ned?
Strewth!
Well now, this costume was inspired by all kinds of things!
1) I've always wanted to make a brightly coloured Manga type power-armour costume.
Why? Uh....yeah...right.
2) As an Aussie armourer I've always been fascinated by Oz's own metal clad bushranger bandit, Ned Kelly. Me, and just about everyone else in our sunburnt country. The Kelly Gang has a lot of mythology attached to it, and, rather like Arthur, Robin Hood and similar iconistic subjects, continues to inspire new interpretations. Some folks take the subject quite personally; fair enough I reckon. Me, I'll settle for just having fun with it!
3) I'm a fan of Keith Laumer's "Bolo" series of science fiction novels, which revolve around futuristic, gargantuan sentient tanks. I got to wondering what kind of infantry (if any!) Bolos might operate in tandem with. So, I thought it might be possible that they could perhaps carry and deploy auxiliary armoured troopers who could, for example, go into places that a Bolo tank just wouldn't fit without breaking things and causing tears all round.
Yer, there's also a Heinleinesque Mobile Infantry "Starship Trooper" 'fluence in the mix. Perhaps especially in the fact that this costume is so cumbersome that any damned ape could walk up behind me and dong me on the head with a rock whilst I was mucking around deciding which bit of hi-tech frightfulness to use on him.
4) The kind of cossie I had in mind would have lots of potential for space-dominating wings, ridiculous weapons and other foolish but beaut looking clobber.
5) I'm also a fan of Bert Chandler's S.F book, "Kelly Country", which postulates an alternate history where Kelly won the Battle Of Glenrowan and went on to found an Australian Republic! An amusingly clever conceit. Perhaps the Aussie Republican Army would eventually develop something like this armour...
'N razorbacks might fly.
Then again, this is Sci-Fi, anything's possible.
6) I'm a mad keen Iron Man fan, the comic book character that is, which helped decide me on the colour, partly.
So, anyway, this was the Mark I Red Kelly costume I built. "Red" Kelly, incidentally, was Ned's old Dad. Seemed appropriate given the colour I chose, which was
also dictated by the colour of the ski-boots that I converted for the costume.
The bulk of the costume is made from corflute, a double walled cardboard like plastic. They make advertising signs, point of sale displays and retail dump boxes from it. Also, art folios! I started out using salvaged signs, then began buying new sheets of it from art shops, the 'clean' corflute being much easier to paint.
The helmet though, was made from sheet aluminium.
Original costume photo by Adrian Maiolla. All other elements taken or created by me.
Actually, it's worth going into the latter.
The grey concrete 'deck' is an exterior wall of the National Gallery Of Victoria. The three octagonal structures come from the interior of the dome in Melbourne's Block Arcade. The solar panel arrays are from the light standards found along Melbourne's Merri Creek parklands. The structure in the background was just a City building under construction.
There ya go mateys, it pays to be a shutterbug, you never know what will come in handy!
More costume photosets at:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N00/sets/
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Week #7 This is Me - Setting up. Wishing I could spend a little more time on photography, I pulled out a bunch of equipment to attempt and take a portrait shot or two. I'll get around to cleaning this up some time next week!ff
THIS IS ME: SL FASHION
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Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.2
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Music: "Those Who Dare to Die Young" by Daniel Gunnarsson
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So much death and sorrow these days. I've been thinking about my personal tragedies, and i realized every tragedy is personal for someone. Insofar as my focus can be called prayer, i send up my prayers for the spirits of all those who have recently lost their lives and to the families and friends who mourn them.
In Virginia. In Iraq. In Palestine. In Darfur.
In my family in Detroit.
Sending love and light...
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Image inspired by the work of flickrite Dunny.
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Highest position in Explore: #83 on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Photo: Ville
Hi. Just wanted to tell you guys that I'm thinking of you and all is well over here. I graduated last Friday and have made my dreams come true being now a life coach and a professional organizer and running my own business (three actually). Blessed. Thankful.
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer the first time, I was 9. She was diagnosed again this summer and still fights against it. When I came back to London after spending long days in hospital, I felt that nothing was the same anymore. I was not the same anymore. I looked at my naked body's reflection on my windows and knew that this is my temple. We have one body throughout our life and we must love it. It is gloriously made of stars and memories and love. It is our vehicle in time. Our body flows our energy into the world and welcomes everything we let come into our life.
I have embraced who I am and love every bit of me. I shaved half of my head to show my support to my mother, I exercise frequently, I meditate more, I am looking forward to wake up and spread my yoga mat on my balcony in front of the city, I no longer eat meat, I rarely smoke, (only with wine and good company, busted), I drink less and less and most of all I detoxed from people who did not worth being part of my life. I express my feelings openly with honesty and love, protecting my heart, yet keeping it open, and I patiently repeat myself that I am perfect exactly the way I am. Blood and love in a girl's shaped flesh.
To love what is ahead, you must love what has come before.
Love, N.
Phyre = (fire)
{to ensure that the truths about LGBT African Americans are known, understood and celebrated.}
Wore it to school today, yes i did. Got not one strange look. Not even when they saw the back in big, bold letters: "Question Homophobia. Change is possible."
Background texture: brocade covered wall, courtesy of Bobby Prokenpek.
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From a week of texture and meaning.
Nikon D7100
Nikon 35MM f/1.8
1/250 | f/11 | 35mm | ISO 100
B800 in 24 x 36 soft box just above camera out of frame @ 1/2 power
Bare B400 @ 2/3 power behind subject aimed at seamless white background (gradient added in post)
All strobes fired by Cybersync
(All strobes, modifiers and triggers by Paul C Buff)
(EnZee is my former screenname ;)
It should be quite obvious that this is a reference to one of my favorite movies, the one i've seen about 25 times, the one that i (used to) know every sentence of...
I intentionally wrote only the Y to give the feeling that this is happening right now, someone (or something...) is still writing it.
Oh, if you're interested in the screen: it's not a screenprint, but a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. A nice program that allows you to make presentations, usually for business. I used quite a large font (66pt) and the font is Batik Regular, found on one of the many sites on the net where you can download fonts.
-Added to theCream of the Crop pool as most interesting.
52 in 2015
Week #9 ~ Self portrait
Well, hundreds of shots later and this was the last one! Thankfully as I am very bored looking at pictures of myself ;)
Thanks all for your kind comments! I really appreciate them.
Standing in snow out front of Grandma's house, waiting on step-father and step-grandmother to pick me up and take me to Mother and step-father's house for the big Christmas meal.
Grandma was staying warm inside; she was smart. :)
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Christmas Day 2009
Carthage, Missouri
40 years old
you do not want to be the one who puts this expression on my face...
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a week of "grit"
Long, hard, complicated day. Spreading Mother'a ashes all over NYC today. Many tears and sadness - but - doing what we'd agreed upon. And I walked all over this city today. I have so much to think about ...
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Friday 1 August 2014
atop the Decorator's and Designer's Building, Manhattan, NYC
45 years old
EXPLORED: #409
Today is the beginning of the new, improved and focused me. I didn't do anything really relevant but I can feel the change :P.
This is going to be really good for me.
NOTE: The title of the photo has nothing to do with Rocky but with Persepolis and one of the most amazing scenes I've seen in my life.
P.S.: I'm finally up-to-date with my project, I hope this week I don't fall behind again.
Overediting can be bad, but at the same time, it's almost like playing pretend, turning something into something that it's not. Imagination, childhood. Fun!
I looked through a paper towel tube telescope, and the light flare is natural and was in the perfect spot. Then I edited it to the max, which contributed to the imaginative look and feel of the image.
Let the light of history enable us to see that "enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family." Let truth destroy the dividing prejudices of nationality and teach universal love without distinction of race, merit or rank. With the sublime enthusiasm and heavenly vision of the Great Teacher let us help men to rise above the race hate of this age unto the altruism of a rejuvenated universe.
Martin Luther King Jr.? No. Carter G. Woodson, speaking a generation earlier. This quote was taken from an address at the first observance of Negro History Week in 1926. It is a portion of a speech printed in The Journal of Negro History, a publication founded by Woodson in 1916, ten years prior to that first celebration.
The journal is now known as the Journal of African American History (JAAH), published by the similarly named Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH, formerly the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History).
Sad that this organization and its publication have been in existence for almost 100 years, and i never head of either before today. Sad, too, that the effects of Hurricane Katrina, and its impact on the journal's Dillard University home in particular, have forced the journal to process its submissions through the ASALH offices in Washington, DC. I do not know how much damage was done to their archives; i can only hope the history stored there survived.
And 100 years from now, i wonder how the light of history will shine upon this generation....
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A week of perhaps-overlooked Black History.
Can't get much more real than this. An everyday life snapshot. Left home in a hurry, no make up, sligthly sleep deprived, always carrying that tiny Canon. A very quick shot in an elevator, coming from the dentist, hurrying to the shopping centre nearby where my hubby was waiting for me with our tiny baby.
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"This is me" 52 of 2011, week #2
"Mirror image" The Monthly Scavenger Hunt #7 January 2011
"83. Self 111 pictures in 2011
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